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I know I say the same thing all the time, but really, there are very few useful MA econ programs in the U.S. Seconding the above comments about the Duke program, I've known people there, and they all know it's just a way to make money for the department. It's not really taken very seriously. They or NYU or BU or the other similar schools will never fund anyone for an MA, but you should know that by now. Most people outside the programs know enough not to take them seriously, because they're not at all comparable to the PhD programs at those schools. This isn't to say that an MA from one of these places is not useful, just that it's almost certainly less useful than you'd expect.
There are a few programs in the U.S. and Canada that provide a very good grounding in econometrics and applied econ., the kind of stuff that is actually useful. I know my program places people very well, since they come out with a LOT of econometric knowledge, and know SAS, Stata, and Matlab. These are skills you should be picking up in any reputable MA program.
The European master's programs are of course very different, but you're not getting any funding there, and they're definitely not cheap, either.
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